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U.S. Government, world class liars


Brasscheck TV
Sun, 01 Sep 2013 10:03 UTC

I doubt anyone has forgotten, but it doesn't hurt to be reminded.

In the modern era, war is invariably justified by official lying.

Hitler did it. Lyndon Johnson did it. Richard Nixon did it. Ronald Reagan did it. George Bush Sr. did it. Bill Clinton did it. George Bush Jr. did it.

And now Barack "Bushbama" Obama is doing the very same thing.

What is war?

It's an act of psychopaathic mass violence coordinated by governments funded with stolen tax dollars waged primarily against civilians for the purposes of stealing resources, enriching arms makers, creating terror and justifying oppression at home and abroad.

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Chess

Iran says warships headed close to 'US borders'


Associated Press
Sat, 08 Feb 2014 14:06 UTC
Iranian warships
© Reuters
Dec. 8, 2012: One of two Iranian navy warships arrives to dock at Port Sudan in the Red Sea state
Iranian warships dispatched to the Atlantic Ocean will travel close to U.S. maritime borders for the first time, a senior Iranian naval commander said Saturday.

The commander of Iran's Northern Navy Fleet, Admiral Afshin Rezayee Haddad, said the vessels have already entered the Atlantic Ocean via waters near South Africa, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Comment: What a concept! Evil Iran is moving around their warships for a training mission!

Obviously it is the U.S. that carried and distributed most of its army all over the globe AND close to the Iranian borders, oceans and continents away from where they belong, but let's scratch that and forget all we know about America's imperial wars, just to create a headline that makes Iran sound threatening and evil once again!

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Airplane Paper

Obama on IRS Scandal: "Not Even A Smidgen Of Corruption" - His nose is growing

Ian Schwartz
Real Clear Politics
Sun, 02 Feb 2014 00:00 UTC
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Bill O'Reilly: Okay. So you don't recall seeing [Douglas] Shulman, because what some people are saying is that the IRS was used at a local level in Cincinnati, maybe other places to go after --

President Obama: Absolutely wrong.

O'Reilly: How do you know that because we still don't know what happened?

Obama: Bill, we do -- that's not what happened. Folks have again had multiple hearings on this. These kinds of things keep on surfacing in part because you and your TV station will promote them. Obama --

O'Reilly: Obama aren't there some unanswered questions?

Obama: Bill, when you look at the stuff, there have been multiple hearings on it. What happened here was that you've got a 501(c)4 law people think is confusing. The folks did not know how to implement because it basically says --

O'Reilly: So you're saying there was no corruption there at all.

Obama: That's not what I'm saying.

O'Reilly: I want to know what you're saying. You're the leader of the country.

Obama: Absolutely.

O'Reilly: You're saying no corruption, none?

Obama: There was some bone-headed decisions.

O'Reilly: Bone-headed decisions. Obama no mass corruption?

Obama: Not even mass corruption. Not even a smidgeon of corruption.
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Study: U.S. regime has killed 20-30 million people since World War Two

James A. Lucas
CounterCurrents.org
Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:35 UTC
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Introduction

After the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the American psyche. A few people at that time attempted to promote a balanced perspective by pointing out that the United States had also been responsible for causing those same feelings in people in other nations, but they produced hardly a ripple. Although Americans understand in the abstract the wisdom of people around the world empathizing with the suffering of one another, such a reminder of wrongs committed by our nation got little hearing and was soon overshadowed by an accelerated "war on terrorism."

But we must continue our efforts to develop understanding and compassion in the world. Hopefully, this article will assist in doing that by addressing the question "How many September 11ths has the United States caused in other nations since WWII?" This theme is developed in this report which contains an estimated numbers of such deaths in 37 nations as well as brief explanations of why the U.S. is considered culpable.

The causes of wars are complex. In some instances nations other than the U.S. may have been responsible for more deaths, but if the involvement of our nation appeared to have been a necessary cause of a war or conflict it was considered responsible for the deaths in it. In other words they probably would not have taken place if the U.S. had not used the heavy hand of its power. The military and economic power of the United States was crucial.

Comment: Note that this report was published 7 years ago - many more people have been killed and injured since then. Note also that figures for the Second Iraq War were incomplete at the time of publishing. The death toll has since reached somewhere between 1 and 2 million people killed.

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U.S. NGO uncovered in Ukraine protests

William Engdahl
Boiling Frogs Post
Fri, 07 Feb 2014 00:00 UTC
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Vitali Klitschko, leader of the Ukrainian opposition Udar (Punch) party
CANVAS: The Belgrade US-Financed Training Group Behind the Carefully-Orchestrated Kiev Protests

The recent protests in Ukraine have the stench of a foreign-orchestrated attempt to destabilize the government of Viktor Yanukovych after he walked away from signing an EU Association Agreement that would have driven a deep wedge between Russia and Ukraine. Glamor-star boxer-turned political guru, Vitaly Klitschko, has been meeting with the US State Department and is close to Angela Merkel's CDU political machine in Germany. The EU association agreement with Ukraine is widely resisted by many EU member states with deep economic problems of their own. The two EU figures most pushing it - Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski - are both well known in the EU as close to Washington.

The US is strongly pushing the Ukraine EU integration just as it had been behind the 2004 failed "Orange Revolution" to split Ukraine from Russia in a bid to isolate and weaken Russia. Now Ukrainians have found evidence of direct involvement of the Belgrade US-financed training group, CANVAS behind the carefully-orchestrated Kiev protests.
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How psychopaths changed America

Ian Hughes
Disordered World
Sun, 19 Jan 2014 00:00 UTC
I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.

Martin Luther King
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According to a recent global survey, the United States is perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace today. Its unrivalled war machine, out of control surveillance programme, decades-long record of attacking other nations, and its use of drones to carry out extrajudicial killings, lend credence to the charge that America is the world's number one war monger. It has not always been so. Before the Second World War the United States was reluctant to intervene militarily overseas, and no American troops were stationed in any foreign country.

World War Two changed all that. Within a few short years, the United States began the largest build up of arms in history and adopted a policy of armed intervention in the affairs of other nations. Psychopaths were largely responsible for these dramatic changes. This is the story of how psychopaths changed America.

Comment: While the U.S. was intervening militarily overseas as early as the mid-19th century when it conquered northern Mexico and slaughtered half a million Filippinos, it does seem to have become hyper-aggressive as a result of WW2 - Project Paperclip, the National Security Act, the Bomb, the CIA, the NSA, the Pentagon, etc. - during which psychopaths like the Dulles brothers selected the most psychopathic Nazis to bring across the Atlantic and institute 'The Beast' that America has become.

Having said that, there is reason to be suspicious of the claim that the US was forced to enter WW2. There is evidence that the attack on Pearl Harbor was foreseen and 'allowed' to happen to provide justification for a US entry into the war. The statement in the above article that "the United States had been forced, by Hitler and Hirohito, into wars in Europe and Asia in which it did not wish to be involved" runs counter to the fact that wars are very profitable for major world powers, and provide a means to secure territory and therefore resources, overseas. When looked at objectively, there is little to dissuade the ruling elite of any major world nation from entering or starting a war, and much to encourage them. The fact that millions of citizens may die, is of little concern, as the 'elite's of major world nations in modern history are, almost invariably, psychopaths, who are unable to empathise with or care about the suffering of other people.

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MIB

Sochi Olympic Games and the threat of a terrorist attack: Who is behind the Caucasus terrorists?

Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
Thu, 06 Feb 2014 05:00 UTC
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Shamil Basayev and Al Khattab
In the weeks leading up to the Sochi Winter Olympics, the Western Media has released a dribble of "trustworthy reports" examining "the likelihood" of a terrorist attack at the height of the Olympic games.

In late January, the British government warned "that more terrorist attacks in Russia (following the Volgograd attack in December) are "very likely to occur before or during the Winter Olympics in Sochi". (BBC, January 27, 2014).

As the Olympic torch reaches Sochi, CNN released, in a timely fashion, the results of an "authoritative" opinion poll (based on a meager sample of 1000 individuals): "57% of Americans think terror attack likely at Sochi Games".

Earlier news reports focussed on the mysterious menace of a so-called "Black Widow" terrorist attack emanating from Chechnya, Russia's hotspot of Islamic terrorism. According to a so-called "catastrophe expert" Dr Gordon Woo, a Black Widow attack "is almost certain to happen":
"Because of the history between the Russians and the Chechen people who splintered to form the Caucasus Emirate, Sochi is a prime target for terrorism," said Woo, who has advanced insurance modelling of catastrophes, including designing a model for terrorism risk. (International Business Times)
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Fukushima radiation levels underestimated by five times - TEPCO


RT
Sat, 08 Feb 2014 02:25 UTC
Fukushima nuclear workers
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TEPCO has revised the readings on the radioactivity levels at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant well to 5 million becquerels of strontium per liter - both a record, and nearly five times higher than the original reading of 900,000 becquerels per liter.

Strontium-90 is a radioactive isotope of strontium produced by nuclear fission with a half-life of 28.8 years. The legal standard for strontium emissions is 30 becquerels per liter. Exposure to strontium-90 can cause bone cancer, cancer of nearby tissues, and leukemia.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. originally said that the said 900,000 becquerels of beta-ray sources per liter, including strontium - were measured in the water sampled on July 5 last year.

However, the company noted on Friday that the previous radioactivity levels had been wrong, meaning that it was also likely reading taken from the other wells at the disaster-struck plant prior to September were also likely to have been inaccurate, the Asahi Shimbum newspaper reported.

The Japanese company has already apologized for the failures, which they said were a result of the malfunctioning of measuring equipment.
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Chess

US regime-change operation in Ukraine exposed in leaked diplomatic phone call

Patrick O'Connor
World Socialist Web Site
Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:43 UTC

A leaked phone conversation between Victoria Nuland, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, and Geoffrey Pyatt, the US ambassador to Ukraine, has exposed the anti-democratic and colonialist character of the Obama administration's intervention in the former Soviet republic.

The discussion between the two officials includes a detailed review of which right-wing opposition figures Washington is working to install in office, and how it is using the United Nations to rubber-stamp the operation. While Germany and other European powers have worked closely with the Obama administration in promoting the violent protests against President Viktor Yanukovych, the leaked phone call reveals tensions between the imperialist powers. At one point Nuland tells Pyatt, "Fuck the EU."

The discussion, posted anonymously on YouTube, underscores the thoroughly cynical character of Washington's public diplomacy. The Obama administration's rhetoric about "democracy" and the Ukrainian people's right to determine their own future is a charade, concocted for public consumption. Behind the scenes, government officials speak frankly with one another about the real agenda - advancing Washington's geo-strategic and economic interests in Eastern Europe by installing pro-US and anti-Russian puppet figures in the Ukrainian capital.
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Bad Guys

Social inequality and the war against the working class

Andre Damon
World Socialist Web Site
Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:23 UTC
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Today, President Obama will sign a bill to cut $8.7 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps, slashing almost $100 per month in benefits for nearly a million households.

The attack on food stamps comes as Obama and the Democrats posture in the run-up to this year's mid-term elections as opponents of social inequality and defenders of the poor and jobless. Nowhere in the establishment media is the glaring contradiction between what the Democrats say and what they do even discussed.

Obama's action on food stamps is indicative of the state of politics and the reality of social life in America. It is the second cut in three months to a program that provides minimal assistance for the most vulnerable sections of society. The lie that there is simply no money for basic social programs is repeated even as new reports document the unprecedented rise in the wealth of the financial elite.

The levels of wealth accumulated by a tiny layer of society - in the United States and internationally - are almost unfathomable. A report commissioned by Bloomberg last month found that the world's 300 richest people (0.000004 percent of the world's population) had a net wealth of $3.7 trillion in 2013, an increase of $524 billion (13 percent) in one year alone.
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